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On the show this week Mags gives us some ideas, tips and recipes for tasty and nutritious School Lunches. See her ideas below.
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Lunch box ideas
Primary School Kids
Kids don’t need treats during school, they need a healthy nutritious lunch that can be eaten quickly so that it doesn’t interfere with play time!
- Chopped veg: Carrots, Peppers, Cucumbers, broccoli
- Carrot salad: grated carrot, sweet corn and toasted pine nuts or mixed seeds
- Fruit: Apples, Bananas, Small oranges,
- Dried fruit: Raisins, Mangos, Apricots
- Sandwiches: Cold meat, cheese, cream cheese, peanut butter, almond butter, hummus.
Secondary school Kids
Cold pasta – add some or all of the following:
- grated carrot
- Sweet corn
- Grated cheese
- Cucumber
- Scallions
- Tomatoes
- Nuts (if allowed)
- Parsley
Couscous – add some of the following:
- Scallions
- Cucumber
- Tomato
- Herbs – mint, parsley
Noodles
- Cooked veg works better with cold noodles.
- Peppers, red onion, carrots, mange tout.
- Coriander
- Soya sauce
Dips
- Sliced apple and peanut butter dip.
- Hummus and bread sticks or veg
Of course there are also some jobs to do in the garden:
- Spray spuds for blight
- Start harvesting your maincrop potatoes as the leaves yellow and die back. Try storing your potatoes in hessian sacks which exclude light but allow adequate ventilation.
- Lift and dry onions, shallots and garlic once the foliage has flopped over and yellowed. Store them in onion bags to prevent moulds developing.
- Cut back leaves on grapevines to let the sun ripen the fruits
- Remove the lower leaves of cordon tomatoes up to the lowest truss, to let more light and air reach the fruits
- Harvest tomatoes, cucumbers and chillies regularly to encourage more fruits to form
- Sow green manure to fill any bare ground
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